Doherty: 'Kate saved my life'

Troubled rocker Pete Doherty today says girlfriend Kate Moss "saved his life" and turned him against drugs.

The Baby Shambles frontman said he gave up heroin and crack cocaine for the sake of supermodel Moss and the pair's two children by former partners.

Doherty, 26, who has said he hopes to marry 32-year-old Moss this summer, said he agreed to have a naltrexone implant to stop him craving opiates - supposedly at Moss's urging. "It was get an implant or die," he said.

"I was fixing up, shooting white, shooting brown, and then entering a relationship - I mean, God knows, Kate saved my life."

In a Vanity Fair interview, published today, Doherty warned against the "epidemic" of crack and heroin, saying he did not glamorise them. "Drugs are a very selfish thing," he said. "It goes against a lot of the central tenets of the things I have always claimed to believe in."